By Joe Yogerst, CNN: Why this is Latin America’s next dining destination Anticucho (beef heart brochette) with pinta boca potatoes and aji cream with peanuts at Ancestral in La Paz. Courtesy Patricio Crooker and Christian Gutierrez. CNN — Bolivia doesn’t seem like an obvious foodie destination. But the big, landlocked South American country is making waves in the culinary world via top-notch…
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Indigenous threatened by violent invading miners | Indígenas amenazados por violentos mineros invasores
Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive by Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: Environmental activists in Bolivia say they’ve become the targets of discrimination, death threats and even bombings after speaking out against harmful mining operations in the department of Oruro. The activists, most of them women, have faced escalating violence this year because…
Fishermen demand suspension of mining activity in the Beni River | Pesqueros piden suspender actividad minera en río Beni
El Diario: Due to contamination Faced with the serious impacts and damages caused by mining activity on the population living along the riverbanks and on the commercialization of their product, the fishing sector has called for the suspension of mercury use and the cessation of this activity in the basins of the Beni River. “We…
El gobierno engaña con el etanol | Gov misleads w ethanol
¿Qué sucederá en Bolivia, que ha permitido que miles de vehículos considerados chatarra en sus países de origen y contrabandeados aquí, como un movimiento demagógico para apaciguar a la población? ¿Es este otro intento de desviar la atención sobre lo mal que van realmente nuestro sistema judicial, nuestra democracia y nuestra situación económica? En cualquier…
A dog defends its owner when he was attacked by a jaguar | Un perro defiende a su dueño cuando era atacado por un jaguar
El Deber: The victim went to check on his pasture and the jaguar attacked him. One of his dogs defended him and the man managed to save his life. It happened in the Monte Verde community, in the municipality of Concepción. A 66-year-old man almost died after being attacked by a jaguar in a pasture…
Cobija, Pando: Rise of the Acre River | Ascenso del río Acre
El Diario: More than 500 families abandon their homes due to the rise of the Acre River The level of the Acre River, which reached 14.50 meters on the bank and continues to rise, caused more than 100 families to stay in various shelters and another 400 families to take refuge in the homes of…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 